Angrily, he destroys the bedroom and television before setting fire to the books.
Linda leaves the house, telling Montag that she couldn't live with his book obsession and leaves him to be punished by the Firemen. Later, Montag tells Beatty that he is resigning but is convinced to go on one more call, which turns out to be Montag's own house. She tells him of the "book people", a hidden sect of people who flout the law, each of whom has memorised a book to keep it alive. Montag meets with Clarisse and helps her break back into her house to destroy papers that would bring the Firemen to others like her. Montag breaks into Beatty's office, looking for information about the missing Clarisse, and is caught but not punished. The same night, Clarisse's house is raided, but she escapes through a trapdoor in the roof, thanks to her uncle. That night, Montag dreams of Clarisse as the book collector who killed herself. During the reading, one of Linda's friends breaks down crying, aware of the feelings she repressed over the years, while Linda's other friends leave in disgust over Montag's alleged cruelty and the sick content of the novel. Disturbed over Montag's behaviour, Linda's friends try to leave, but Montag stops them by forcing them to sit and listen to him read a novel passage.
Returning home that day, Montag tries to tell Linda and her friends about the woman who martyred herself in the name of books and confronts them about knowing anything about what's going on in the world, calling them zombies and telling them that they're just killing time instead of living life. The book collector, an old woman who was seen with Clarisse a few times during Montag's rides to and from work, refuses to leave her house, opting instead to burn herself and the house, so that she can die with her books. This leads to conflict with his wife, Linda, who is more concerned with being popular enough to be a member of The Family, an interactive television programme that refers to its viewers as "cousins".Īt the house of an illegal book collector, the fire captain, Beatty, talks with Montag at length about how books make people unhappy and make them want to think that they are better than others, which is considered anti-social. Curious, he begins to hide books in his house and read them, starting with Charles Dickens's David Copperfield.
The two have a discussion about his job, where she asks whether he ever reads the books he burns. One of the firemen, Guy Montag, meets one of his neighbours, Clarisse, a young schoolteacher who may be fired due to her unorthodox views. They have the power to search anyone, anywhere, at any time, and burn any books they find.
In the future, a totalitarian government employs a force known as Firemen to seek out and destroy all literature. Another notable aspect of the film is that Julie Christie plays two characters, Clarisse and Montag's wife Mildred, whose name was changed to Linda in the adaptation. Truffaut's adaptation differed from the novel by portraying Montag and Clarisse falling in love. Truffaut wrote in a letter, "You mustn't think that 'Alphaville' will do any harm whatsoever to 'Fahrenheit'", but he was mistaken. Based on one of Ray Bradbury's most famous novels, Fahrenheit 451 came out in 1966, one year after a dystopian film named Alphaville was released, directed by his friend and fellow filmmaker Jean Luc Godard.
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